I catched a grizzly bear! (kind of) , awesome schoolwork and lost pictures from GP

Hey guys.  This post will consist a lot of pictures, because my phone was odd the last time, so I couldn't post the pictures I wanted to.  Last Saturday I had my last badminton tournament. I think I did really good,even if I just won one game (my first one at all)  I think i played pretty well in the other two games anyway.  During the tournament I  wanted to sent some of my postcards away, but then the post office was closed -.- So then I got me some ice cream (soft ice cream with chocolate all around it.  It's so good ^.^). Oh and I should mention that I went outside with short pants, so it's not to cold.  After the tournament I went with my hostfamily to something, I forgot what it's called .  They had for example some dead animals there and so the day kind of came, where I catched a (sadly not a grizzly) bear.  :D.   But the year isnt over yet so there is still the chance to see one in real life.

This week I feel way happier and I'm over my "I wanna go home " phase.  Don't ask me  how I did that,but I'm not complaining.  This Monday I also decided to switch to art class, because chemistry was getting bored and as an exchange student it's easy to switch classes.  I love art class, because we do such cool things.  At first we did like a thing where you painted the background colourful, cut out things, glued them on the painting,then sprayed black paint over it and then peeled it of and it looks just  awesome!

this is how it looked in the end :)

 Next we are doing paper mache and I will do Dobby from Harry Potter (the fangirl inside of me has spoken).  I also finally finished my night stand and brought it home safely yesterday.


 Monday night something cool happened too.  I was just going to bed amd then I looked outside the window and saw the Northern lights!  Isn't that awesome?!? So then I went outside and watched them for a bit, before they sadly disappeared.
Today is also my last badminton practice and then the season is finally over.  I'm just happy because I don't need to organize rides and stay overs anymore.  But now there probably will be new things to handle and probably more stay overs and rides too.  I hope you all have a good day :)

on of our pigs had babies again. Soooooo cute ^.^


     And now the lost pictures from Grande Prairie :)

We brought two of our steers to a butcher shop and I found the name funny, because in Germany (and in Canada probably too) we have a clothing store called H& M too ;D

this was how it looked at the auction sale. It was huge!

This is really cool isn't it? You could go up there and then go down the slide. :D

you can't really see it, but at the auction were hundreds of trucks (big and small) and they all got sold!

this was inside of one of the campers. In my opinion it looked pretty neat!

Jasper video :)

Hey guys. You probably all know that I went to Jasper in March. Now I finally made a video, where you can see, what I saw. Enjoy :)

click here to get to the video :)

Grande Prairie (again),books, homesick?,school

Hey guys!
Last week we had springbreak. Everytime I watched TV or something I imagined spring break as something really cool. But eventually it's just a normal break. I didn't do anything special over the whole week. The only thing we did was going to Grande Prairie from Thursday to Friday. My hostdad wanted to go to an auction and it was huge! They sold over a thousand vehicles and also campers, trailers and other stuff. In the afternoon my siblings and I went to the swimming pool. They had a indoor surf thingy there and it was just awesome! First I was just trying it with laying and kneeling on a body board, but eventually I decided to stand and I did a pretty good job. It was a lot of fun and it's even a little bit similar to snowboarding. I hope I will have the chance to do that in Germany as well. For supper we all ate at Tim Hortons and then went to bed. In the morning I got Tim bits and a blueberry muffin from tim Hortons and then I went to the mall. I spent there like 4/5 hours .  To my own surprise I just bought one shirt, a hogwarts shirt :D The reasopn I just bought this is, that I didn't wanted to spend money. idk I just don't really like spending money on cloth I just buy, so I bought something (I hope you get what I mean). I hope I haven't mentioned it before. But the last time we've been to GP I bought a snowboard bag for just 30 $ and I hope I can fit some of my clothes in there, because I'mk really scared, that my stuff will be expensive. Lately I just realized, how much I actually bought. But don't worry. My Plan B is wearing as much as possible on my flight. That would be fun ;D  Anyway back to the mall.  For lunch I ate greek and it was like a greek salad, chicken and peta bread and it was really good.  I also bought the book "The perks of being a wallflower"  It was a really really good book. By the way. I have the feeling I already bought way to many books. A while ago I read "Just one day" by Gayle Forman and I had to buy the second book.   After going to the mall (which was really boring in the end, even if I met two friends from High prairie there) I went to Value village. It's a second hand store and I couldn't belive my eyes. They had six out of seven Harry Potter books there and if I'd had enought room and wanted to own them in english I would've totally bought them. I could've got them for under 30$ :/  But I guess some other really lucky potter head will get those books (I put them in order. I just had too). Then I bought the tales or beardle and  ...  (i forgot the name)  But the other book from J.K. Rowling and then I went to canadian tire. I just relaxed in the garden furniture section, because I was still very tired from surfing the day before. Then after 2 hours our hostdad picked my host siblings and me finally up and after eating at Boston Pizza (not the best Pizza in my opinion) we finally went home and I was happy to be in my own bed again :)
On Monday school started again and I was just in my "all those people are pissing me off a I wanna go home phase".  But then my one friend who just came back told be how "grey" Germany is and everything and that I should enjoy the last time and that kind of kept me going.  i was not really homesick. It is just that it's kind of boring sometimes and I miss the public travel system and my family and my best friend. So okay. maybe it was homesickness. But it was not to bad and  I think now I'm over it :D   I was not super sad or desperate or anything , but I decided to open the letter we wrote in Frankfurt at the preparation meeting, that motivates us when we want to go home.  It was really hilarious what I wrote. :) 
Then also this week is so busy and I'm glad when it will be over . I have badminton 4! times this week and had to arrange a ride every time. The phrase . You know what you have when you lose it fitted pretty good. I miss the public travel system and I hate to depend on people giving me rides. But till now I nearly mastered three out of four times. (high five to myself).   Also in school I am nearly done with my nightstand. There is so much work in this little thing and it takes forever to get it done, but it looks really good and it's a pity that I can't take it home :/ But I realized that I already learned so much in IA (industrial arts) about working with wood and stuff. It's awesome. In General I think I already learned a lot , even in my language   (still people say I have a little accent . damn it ;).
One last thing I guess. There was an author at our school on Wednesday and he wrote 96! books or something and he was pretty cool. his name is Eric Walters. He told us about all the things he experienced. He gave us some good lessons on the way. (Don't fight hate with hate, fight it with love, twilight sucks and other things :). He said he was in Germany  and I really hope, that I might meet him there again and then I can be like " hey I've met you before on the other end of the world"  . He also has an orphanage somewhere in Africa and it is really impressive what he has all done.
I think that's about it.   I probably switch from my Chemistry class to Art , because Chem is boring and I'm not very productive there. And I really wish we'd have IA in Germany then I could make so many cool things.     Hope you are all doing great :)  #84daysleft   it's crazy how fast time went by :o

I'm nearly done with writing postcards. It's hard to write down your life on a little card like this!

This is how my night stand looks like right now. I just painted it. I kind of can't wait when it's done, but on the other hand it was a lot of fun doing this :) why don't we have that class in Germany?!?!?

                                       
that's my new Hogwarts shirt. Now I can be a proud potterhead :)

New youtube video!!!

here is my latest update video on Youtube . enjoy :)

Easter, Badminton, School, Schnitzel

Did I really say this blog will be weekly? I´m really trying but then a week goes by so fast, not many exiting things happen and I simply just foregt and am to lazy. 

So let´s see what happened.  I already had two badminton tournaments. One in Valleyview and one in Beaverlodge.  When we went to the Valleyview one it was kind of cool, because I´ve been there before with basketball and already knew the school . A badminton tournament works , that they have different games and categories and then you get gamenumbers. So for example you will play game 23, 41 and 57. And then it depends on if you win or not, you will have more games. Because I´m not that good in badminton I didn´t win and had to wait about 4hours doing nothing exiting. Then eventually some of us invented a game where we had to throw pennies in a empty pop can from the stairs. That was pretty fun. On our way back we stopped at Tim Hortons (Timmies) and I bought buns and tim bits (it´s like mini cake balls. They are really really good). When I came home, I decided to make Schnitzel (german dish) for potluck on church one day later. While I was doing it, my hostdad later joined me. And because he is Austrian we were listening to Folks music later. To be honest. I never thought this woukd ever happen under my free will xD.  The people at church all really liked the Schnitzel :D   For our second badminton tournament we left on Friday to sleep in a hotel in GP (which is half an hour away from Beaverlodge). We ate in a steak house for dinner and so I ended up buying 17 Dollar pasta  instead of buying something cheaper.  Well at least it tasted good :D In the evening we went to the swimming pool from the hotel and I still have a plugged ear -.- (and it really sucks to be half deaf). The tournament didn´t went to bad, even if I haven´t had my usully racket. In the last game I played I even missed the easiest hits which was kind of awkward, but then funny too xD After the tournament we went to Tim Hortons again and I got a Swiss and ham sandwich, A fruit smoothie and tim bits., I guess this is my standard order there now.   

School is going good too I guess.In English class we are reading Lord of the flies right now. Itself it´s not bad , but our teacher is reading it out loud (and I really don´t like that) and most of my english class people are not the brightest ones.  In IA my night stand is nearly done. We just glued everything together and I really hope I´ll get it done one week after spring break. In cemistry we were doing some experiments and I´m also nearly done with my psychology course so than I can do something else :D 

In church I joined the worship team now twice already , what means I sang aka played the guitar and drums some songs at the beginning of church with some other people and it was really fun. 

Yesterday my hostfamily and me have been invited for dinner (my hostmums friend. And she is the "canadian grandma") .So she made a big easter dinner with turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and stuff and then for desert she made carrot cake and something else. It was really good so I ate lots xD There were also some of her grand kids (from the canadian grandma) and so we playedon hay bales and then nearly before it got dark we went to a waterfall.  

We also went to GP one day and I got a graduation dress ( because I can take part in the graduation here what is really cool), a snowboard bag for just 30 $ (what is good too, because to bolster my snowboard I just put all my heavy clothes in there and then I won´t have a problem with the weight of the luggage anymore) . I also bought me shorts and I´m still looking for new gym and summer shoes (my gym shoes got wrecked xD)

At last but not least I will talk a bit about Easter here.

It´s actually less spectacular then in Germany , even if I thought it would be other way around. Of course I went to church on Friday and Sunday , but without me there wouldn´t be any painted eggs and hidden easter bunnies at all I guess :/   

Well I think that´s the most important stuff. I hope now you are happy because you are up to date ;)

HAPPY EASTER!!

 this are our painted easter eggs. expet for one that my mum sent to me. Guess which one it is xD

my canadina easter egg. Before I made this, I just remembered that I did one like this last year and then I wanted to do one this year again and then I just realized how fast time goes by.

 another beautiful sunset. And believe me or not. It´looks million times better in real life and I´m always dissapointed, when my camera can´t show it that good.

 playing on hay bales

 A typical canadian holiday dinner ^.^

 they really sell this for 5$  (and it´s the same like german schoko bonbons)

 this are  the legs for my night stand. They feel so soft ^.^

this is how the school looked like in beaverlodge. Isn´t that cool ?